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ISBN: 9781761343469
author: Richard Flanagan
book format: Hardcover
publishing house: Random House Australia
publication date: 2023 -10
language: English
binding: Kindle Edition
number of pages: 280

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Richard Flanagan   

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By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this genre-defying daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river not knowing if he is to live or to die.

At once a love song to his island home and to his parents, this hypnotic melding of dream, history, literature, place and memory is about how reality is never made by realists and how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves.

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